GEOG 2RW3 Lecture 15: North Africa and The Middle East II (Detailed Lecture Notes)
24 Dec 2018
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The cradle of civilization: c. 12,000 ya beginning of agriculture, permanent settlements and cities. The story of the beginning of agriculture about 12000 years ago in this crescent area here (the green) it also extends down into north africa and egypt. One area within that where we see the best example of the beginning of agriculture is in. Mesopotamia (the land between two rivers) signifying the area between the two key rivers the. Its connected to the emergence of the first permanent settlement and eventually what we would characterize as cities. Before agriculture everyone as nomad, people had no permanent places where they occupied piece of land. The nomad would look for plants and animals to eat so they would hunt and gather and collect. The domestication of plants which would be crops. Domestication of animals for feed but also for power for agricultural activities which transitions people from being nomadic to permanent settlers (farmer)
